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1967 trade ad for the single "White Rabbit" is one of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written from December 1965 to January 1966. [12] It uses imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll — 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass — such as changing size after taking pills or drinking an unknown liquid.
The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" [7] [13] ("go ask Alice/ when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, in which the title character Alice eats and drinks various substances, including a mushroom, that make her grow larger or smaller.
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965.One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success.
The drug-themed novel Go Ask Alice takes its name from this song's lyrics. The book's protagonist is never named, but reviewers generally refer to her as "Alice" for the sake of convenience. "On The Right Side Of My Mind," the 11 th track on the 1999 Queensrÿche album, Q2K, contains the following reference to White Rabbit:
[36] Record World called the single "one of [Jefferson Airplane's] sinuous, contemporary melodies", [32] while Billboard said it has "weird, groovy sounds throughout." [37] Paul Nelson wrote a negative review in Hullabaloo magazine: "The Jefferson Airplane never even get off the ground with After Bathing at Baxter's. How a great group like this ...
Balin played with Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. [ 9 ] In December 1969, Balin was knocked unconscious by members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club while performing during the infamous Altamont Free Concert , as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter . [ 10 ]
The new Netflix documentary Martha(out Oct. 30) looks at her "terrible" time there. Stewart, 83, provided filmmaker R. J. Cutler with personal letters she had written throughout her life, some ...
In his book Jefferson Airplane: every album, every song, Richard Butterworth describes the lyrics on Takes Off as "optimistic" and exhibiting a "growing social awareness" of the era's music. [17] Comparatively, Unterberger noted that the band's cover version of Chet Powers ' " Let's Get Together ", later made famous by the Youngbloods , was ...